The 38-year-old from Dorchester, Mass. broke his wrist a couple of weeks ago, but as of Sunday afternoon he was still contemplating iding in tonight's Pro 1/2/3 race.

"Exeter is a race really important to me," said the two-time winner of the Exeter race, who currently rides for Team Mountain Khakis. "It suited me well in the past."

Myerson also won in 1996 and also finished second and third.

"I definitely want to be there," he said. "This weekend I'll see if I can keep it going."

With or without Myerson, the riders will line up for the start of the Pro 1/2/3 race at 7 on Water Street. A Master's 40-plus men's race — new this year — is scheduled to begin the racing action at 6:05.

Ed Momm, a 48-year-old from Portsmouth and a member of the NorEast Cycles team, will be one of a number of riders competing in the men's master's race.

The poor turnout for the women's race prompted the change.

The approximate .8-mile loop for both races, begins on Water Street, turns onto Front Street, down Tan Street and back onto Water. The men's master's race is a 45-minute scheduled race. The Pro 1/2/3 race is scheduled as a 60-minute race.

Myerson had earlier planned to take a mid-season break in his cycling after racing in the Exeter Criterium, but when he flew over the handle bars at the Tour of Grafton in Wisconsin and broke his wrist (he still managed to finish ninth), he just might take that break a little earlier.

Despite having to wear a brace, he continued racing last weekend at the Grandview Heights in Ohio. Though he finished 12th in the first of three days of racing, his wrist began to bother him the next two days in the three-day event.

Otherwise it's been a pretty good season for the seasoned pro, who has won four races in the USA Criterium Series of which he's currently in third place.

Momm, meanwhile, who works at Seabrook Station, is a Category 2 rider.

He's been riding and racing for the past 25 years, but not necessarily in criteriums. After starting out as a pretty competitively on road racing he veered off into mountain biking at the semi-pro level. Starting up a family came next. So did the sport of running till he got back on his cycle and started to road race again. He placed fifth at the Lake Auburn Road Race a few weeks ago.

His last criterium, however, was the Portsmouth Criterium, a couple of years ago.

"I finished," laughed Momm.

Momm is familiar, though, with the Exeter race.

"It's a great course," said Momm, noting he's ridden the course a number of times in the past.

Momm didn't want to hex himself by predicting where he'd like to finish, but a top 10 finish "would be nice," he said.

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